[Gllug] Alexandria and bar code scanners

[John G Walker]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:43:16 +0100 JLMS <jjllmmss at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Unless you have some interesting statistics, such denial is highly
> counter intuitive...

I don't have statistics, but I was objecting to a wildly broad
statement that, itself, was backed up neither by statistics nor any
qualitative evidence. Maybe you should ask James if he has statistics
to back up his - extraordinarily wide - claim.

> 
> Pretty much all the civilized world, and most parts of the uncivilized
> one, use bar codes in preference to manual output of any kind, so I
> find the technophobia a bit eccentric...

I'm not sure how technophobia comes into this. I was making an
observation from the experience of using the technology.

The wide use of bar codes has, in any case, nothing to do with my
point. They are used because they enable the substitution of labour by
capital. This is called capitalism and it exists for reasons beyond
technophilia and technophobia,

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 All the best,
 John
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